Hi again, I have a similar problem as I did with the glissandos.
If I generate a text spanner with a beginning and an end. (such as in the example sul pont ------> ord.) and it breaks over two lines of music, I'd like to have the sul pont. in the first line and ord in the second with a broken line, but instead lilypond places sul pont at the beginning of the expression then ord at the end of the line, then again in the next line sul pont. and then ord at the end. Is there a way to write the texts at the beginning and end of the line and not at the breaking points? In other words, to have the text only at the leftmost and rightmost bounds? This is again on latest lilypond 2.18.2-1 on os x 10.8.5 and the code below reproduces it. best, J \header { title = "writing text spans " } inst_part = \relative c' { \time 4/4 \clef treble % ________________________________________bar 1 : \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = #"sul tasto " \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.text = #" sul pont " \once \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.arrow = ##t \once \override TextSpanner.style = #'line dis2\startTextSpan cis8[ f8] f8[ f8] | % ________________________________________bar 2 : cis8[ e8] g8[ dis8] f8[ f8] dis8[ f8] | % ________________________________________bar 3 : dis8[ g8] fis8[ cis8] dis8[ cis8] g'8[ f8] | % ________________________________________bar 4 : c8[ cis8] cis8[ f8] f8[ d8] cis8[ e8] | % ________________________________________bar 5 : g8[ e8] g8[ f8] d8[ fis8] d8[ cis8] | % ________________________________________bar 6 : f2\stopTextSpan } \score { \new Staff { \new Voice { \inst_part } } \layout { \override TextSpanner.bound-padding = #1.0 \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.padding = #1.3 \override TextSpanner.bound-details.right.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER \override TextSpanner.bound-details.left.stencil-align-dir-y = #CENTER #(set-default-paper-size "a4") } \midi { } } \version "2.18.2" % notes Pd External version testing _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user